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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard General Discussion Thread

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Assuming the flashback pattern continues: By season's end, between all the flashbacks and "Children of Mars", there might actually end up being enough material to have had an entire episode set in 2385. If you cut it differently.
 
I have to say, while I'm enjoying the season to date, I do find it a little artificial that every single episode finds a way to shoehorn in one or more "action" scenes, despite it not being an action series.

Episode 1: Two different scenes with Dahj fighting Romulan Assassins.
Episode 2: Prequel shot showing the Synth "rebellion"
Episode 3: Brief firefight at Chateau Picard
Episode 4: Very brief swordfight, followed by slightly longer space combat.

We know the fifth episode will have at least one action scene.

Don't get me wrong - I don't mind an action scene now and again. But many of the best Trek episodes had zero combat, either hand-to-hand or ship-to-ship. There was no combat in The City on the Edge of Forever. There was no combat in The Inner Light. There was no combat in The Visitor. This series should have the confidence to not have to stick an action scene in every episode just because.

Is it really a big deal to have an action sequence so long as it makes sense to the story they are trying to tell, though? All the ones you listed have a reason to exist in those respective episodes.

One of the worst action sequences in Star Trek, IMO, is featured in Into Darkness. The movie piles on action sequence after action sequence and when we're finally given a brief second to breathe, here comes another one; only this time, for whatever reason, the Enterprise is suddenly caught in Earth's gravity. To me, that was just fucking insane.
 
One of the worst action sequences in Star Trek, IMO, is featured in Into Darkness. The movie piles on action sequence after action sequence and when we're finally given a brief second to breathe, here comes another one; only this time, for whatever reason, the Enterprise is suddenly caught in Earth's gravity. To me, that was just fucking insane.
It was, but most blockbuster films are like that these days. They even ruined the Hobbit films with that nonsense.
 
Ask your doctor if Nutrek is right for you.

Side effects may include: Disappointment, frustration, anger and spending too much time online complaining

On the other hand it offers a cure for the ennui, narcolepsy and ocular strain from the eyeroll inducing simplistic and repetitive grade school didacicism the previous generation of Trek induced. Plus, you no longer are afflicted by the desire for all clothing to be color coded and interior design to be all beige.
 
That encompasses far more than the Abrams films.

Exactly. There is plenty of forensic evidence that NextTrek caused the exact same symptoms when it was introduced in 1987 that NuTrek caused on its introduction. Researchers have come to the conculsion that any alteration to the Trek formula on long term users tends to have the same effect on certain groups within the overall population.
 
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